Discerning Leadership Asia Pacific Program

23/09/2026

Happening Now: Our DLAP participants started Day 2 of our workshop with an opening prayer led by Group 1 🙏

22/09/2026

That ends the first day of our workshop! We are sincerely grateful to His Eminence Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrão for his provocative and deeply insightful keynote address on Synodal church in Asia. Our big thanks also to our participants for their active participation in today's session. We are very excited for the next coming days of our workshop! 🎉🥳

22/09/2026

This morning, Fr Johnny Go SJ established the context of the mission of our participants, highlighting the sociocultural challenges they encounter in their respective communities and the opportunities that come with them.

22/09/2026

Earlier today, Fr David McCallum SJ and Sandra Chaoul provided a deep dive on what it means to be a discerning leader in these challenging times, guiding our participants to shatter their illusions and seek God's grace in navigating the complex world we are living in.

22/09/2026

As leaders, where does our attention automatically go?

Fr David McCallum SJ is currently facilitating a group activity with our DLAP participants where they are asked to reflect on the inner and outer dimensions of being a leader and which dimensions they tend to prioritize. Our participants openly shared some of their personal preferences and shared where these preferences come from!

22/09/2026

Happening Now: Our DLAP 2026 participants are sharing with one another some of the insights they gathered from the provocative lecture of Felipe Cardinal Neri Ferrão on the calls and challenges of synodal leadership for the Asian church

22/09/2026

Happening Now: Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrão delivers his keynote address entitled "Synodal Leadership for the Asian Church: Calls and Challenges" in front of our Discerning Leadership Asia Pacific participants. Such rich and provocative insights grounded in Asian contexts he provides to us today!

21/09/2026

And the conference has begun!

Thirty-seven participants from 13 countries across Asia and beyond have gathered at Seven Fountains Centre of Jesuit Spirituality: 15 women and 22 men.

India leads with 13, followed by the Philippines (5), Myanmar (4) and Thailand (3), with participants also from Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Australia and Kiribati.

The room is also packed with leadership experience: 9 Provincials, 9 Provincial Councillors and 3 Diocesan Vicars, alongside parish priests, school leaders, and local superiors.
Our diversity is just as striking: 13 sisters, 11 priests, 10 brothers and 2 lay participants, representing dioceses and religious congregations across the region.

37 people. 13 countries. 7 Fountains. One shared mission.

At the opening Mass for the feast of St Matthew, Fr David McCallum, SJ, Executive Director of the Discerning Leadership Program in Rome, invited the participants to read the Gospel this week through the lens of leadership—and to ask what it means to be called, transformed, and sent.

20/09/2026

The DL AP 2026 team have arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand. [From left] Jeanrick (EAPI, Manila), David (DL Rome), Christina (EAPI-LST, Manila), Sandra (DL Rome), Tony (EAPI, Manila), Nico (St Ignatius Parish, Adelaide), Johnny (ADMU-EAPI Manila). Absent: Andy (On Jesuit Tertianship in Manila)

20/09/2026